Usually means: Obstacle requiring effort to overcome.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. challenge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. challenge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. challenge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. challenge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. challenge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Challenge, challenge: Wordnik
  7. challenge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. challenge: Wiktionary
  9. challenge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. challenge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. challenge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. challenge: Dictionary.com
  13. challenge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. challenge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Challenge (Communist journal), Challenge (Internet), Challenge (NFL), Challenge (Scrabble), Challenge (TV channel), Challenge (Telugu film), Challenge (album), Challenge (competition), Challenge (economics magazine), Challenge (game magazine), Challenge (literature), Challenge (rhetoric), Challenge, The Challenge (TV series), The Challenge (album), The Challenge (miniseries), The Challenge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Challenge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. challenge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. challenge: Rhymezone
  19. challenge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. challenge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. challenge: Free Dictionary
  22. challenge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. challenge: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Challenge (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. challenge: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. challenge: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Challenge (television channel), Challenge, challenge: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. challenge: Hacking Lexicon
  2. Challenge (television channel), Challenge, challenge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  3. Challenge (television channel), Challenge, challenge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. challenge: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CHALLENGE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Challenge, challenge: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A confrontation; a dare.
noun:  An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
noun:  A bid to overcome something.
noun:  (sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
noun:  A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
noun:  The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
noun:  An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
noun:  A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
noun:  (law) A procedure or action.
noun:  The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
noun:  (law, rare) A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
noun:  The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
noun:  (US) An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
noun:  (hunting) The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
verb:  (transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
verb:  (transitive) To dare (someone).
verb:  (transitive) To dispute (something).
verb:  To call something into question or dispute.
verb:  (law, transitive) To make a formal objection to a juror.
verb:  (transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To censure; to blame.
verb:  (military, transitive) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
verb:  (US, transitive) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
verb:  (Canada, US, transitive) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.

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